               = Las Actividades de Matthew Bishop para el 'PC Recycle Project'

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Este pagina describe las actividades generales de M.J.Bishop
es su esfuerzos con el Centro de Trabajo de la Comunidad de Mission Australia




* 11 feb 2004
  
  He escrito una corta lista de caracteristicas de este sistema 'aqui' link:///refurb/docs/features.html y tambien en 'espanyol' link:///refurb/docs/features.es.html
  Estoy pensando de dejar de trabajar en este sistema. Todavia creo
  que tiene algun merito pero siento un poco cansado y a mi no
  parece que estoy avanzando mucho.



* 7 feb 2004

  Un otro dia con mucho sol y calor

* 6 feb 2004
  
  I implemented templating for the document html transformations. 
  This system is starting to get fairly complex, and I am a bit concerned
  that it will not be maintainable. But it is currently working OK, I believe

  * 5 Feb 2004


  u- Escribi un corto 'preguntas mas frecuentes (faq)' link:///refurb/docs/system-faq.html 
     sobre este sistema
   - Escribi una descripcion del lenguaje 'wiki'. Esta lenguaje permite el usuario a no saber nada sobre HTML. Es un lenguaje super sencillo para aprender.
     link:///refurb/docs/wiki-language.html (en ingles)
   - He hecho las structuras de las listas como este que estoy utilizando precisamente ahora. 
     y tambien las structuras de las 'bloques de codigos'. Tengo que dar mas explanaciones sobre este tema en un otro lugar
  
  Aqui esta un bloque de codigos para mostrar la idea. El principio es que el texto entre las senyales no esta transformado en ninguna manera.
  -->>
    El texto aqui no esta transformado. Es muy util por texto 'pre-formato'.
    http://www.google.com las hyper-enlaces no estan vinculados automaticamente
  --<<

  Cosas para hacer
  a- Escribir unos documentos sobre este sistema
   - Limpiar los codigos php
   
 
* 2 Feb 2004

  Estoy trabajando para otras metas. Por ejemplo, de Microsoft Access
  
 
  http://www.jrbarnett.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
   Codigo XHTML bastante bien, me parece. No hay 'tablas' de HTML   
   Un disenyo sencillo un poco 'blocky' 

  http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/sql.html
    Un disenyo con HTML 4     


* 1 Feburary 2004
  
  I am still working on porting the 'webpad' system to the server which is 
  at http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au  Today I have tidied up many of the scripts
  and started a 'webpad' variant of the 'notepad' browser editor. This variation
  is designed for editing 'documents' as opposed to files. Also there will be
  restrictions on which files this editor can access. This will probably be
  delimited by directories at the moment.  

* 30 January 2004

  Did not work on this project. I was getting some sound files to work with
  Redhat 9. Using sox, mpg321 etc


* 29 January 2004

  I have been migrating this application from the old server 
  [http://www.macwcwagga.homedns.org/ideas/] which is a Windows 2000 server.
  I have been migrating to http://www.wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb .The migration is 
  going reasonably smoothly. There were a number of problems with permissions on the
  new server, which is some Unix variant. Firstly, the browser notepad system was
  not able to edit the files because the 'World' or 'Other' permission bits were not
  set. Secondly, the system could not copy or rename files if the directory in which
  they were located did not have sufficient priviledges. Php could not solve these
  problems by using the php chmod function, apparently because whoever php or the 
  web-server was running under did not have enough authority to over-ride the 
  existing permissions (odd explanation...). However, one trick which did work was
  to use PHP to rename the file to something else and then rename it back again. 
  Once it was renamed back, php could write to the file. 


  I had an idea to create a "waggga jobs board" using the 
  current application. I could extract data from the various small web-sites of
  job-network agents in Wagga in order to 'aggregate' in some way, or at least 
  to provide some search functionality. This could be combined with a 'fruitpicking'
  site and which a variant of the 'browser notepad' to produce CVs in word doc
  format. Grandiose plans. 
  

* 27 January 2004
  I need to use the 'htpasswd' utility on the NT server to password protect all this
  with basic authentication. 11.18am am working in Wagga Wagga library. Shouldn't this
  file be arranged 'most recent first'? This project apparently is going to be hosted 
  on some server in America. Therefor these pages are going to be migrated I presume.

  I got several of the PHP pages working on the Windows NT server which is at 
  http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/  These include the find file page, the backup up
  data and code pages ...



* 24 January 2004

Australia day long weekend

  I have recently been porting the 'retrovox' application to the PC-Recycle server
  with is running Windows NT. I originally wrote this system for David Crittle for 
  his site at http://www.retrovox.com.au/ in order to publish some details about the 
  electronic components which he has warehoused. However I believe this system would
  also be of use for the Mission Australia PC Recycle site, because it has a 
  'product' database system which could be used for the recycling components catalog.
  At the moment only the text file editing component and html transformations have
  been ported. The main difficulty is in creating some global variables for the 
  installation directories, instead of having them hard coded into the php pages.

  Went to the Wagga Wagga races. Didnt bet on anything.


* January 6 - January 9, 2004 

  I have not done a lot in these days. I consider my priorities to be
  getting some kind of online catalogue working. We could use zope but
  I think that a simple php component linked to a mysql database would
  be quicker and adequate. 

  The website http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/ has been inaccessible for a 
  number of days. Apparently it was possible to access the web-site using
  a specific port number in the URL, but not with the 'default' port. 
  In other words http://macwcwagga.homedns.org:80/ would have worked. This
  may have to do with the SmoothWall linux based firewall which is being
  used to protect the PC Recycle network which is located in the 
  Mission Australia building in Wagga Wagga. 

  Damien has discovered a small Linux variant called QNX something which
  is able to run a Windows system on an old pentium computer (with only
  32 megabytes of RAM). One drawback is that it is only free for non-
  commercial use. QNX appears to crash frequently. I am not a great fan of
  it. 

In summary I have been fairly uninspired recently and havent achieved 
alot. 

* Holidays 

* January 5, 2004 

  We have returned from holidays and are in the process of changing
  our operating system to linux and freeBsd variants. This could be 
  quite time consuming. The current edit was made from freeBSD using
  the "lynx" text browser



* 22nd & 23rd December 2003

I wrote a couple of scripts which were designed to try to make
the DOS (or a dos box on an MS Windows Computer) more useful.
These scripts are 
  get-stuff.bat http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff.txt and
  conf-dos.bat http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/conf-dos.txt

  The script 'get-stuff.bat' is probably more useful because it allows the 
  user to choose what they would like to install. In order to use this script,
  do the following:

  In a web-browser go to
    http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff.txt

  Choose file --> save from the menu of your web-browser.
  Rename the file to 'get-stuff.bat'
  Open an MS-DOS console window and go to the directory where you saved the script.
  Now type get-stuff or get-stuff.bat

  I also created another version of this installation script which runs on 
  Windows XP. The only real difference is that it cannot use the 'choice' command
  but instead has to use some strange trick with the 'set' command, I believe.
  This new version is at
    http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/eg/batch/get-stuff-xp.txt

  The justification for writing this script is that Damien has made the 
  decision (a wise one) that the project should remove all its dependencies
  on Microsoft software due to licensing issues. For this reason we are 
  evaluting alternative operating systems to use. A major consideration
  is the way in which the computer will be used when it is donated back
  into the Wagga community. Apparently there is a great deal of resistance
  within the community to using non-microsoft software and operating systems.

  Currently the 'OpenOffice' suite of tools is installed on the computers.
  However the majority of the recycled computers only contain 32 Megabytes
  of Ram. Unfortunately OpenOffice runs extremely slowly on these computers.

This is the last day before the holidays. Good-Bye

* Friday, 18 December 2003 

  Setting up a computer for use on the project. Installing lex, yacc and 
  many variants of these programs. 

* Wednesday, 17 December 2003 

  Trying to install Zope and Apache httpd on a computer. Reading about Zope
  in the Zope book. Made a small mock-up of the Mission Australia 
  Community Work site at http://macwcwagga.homedns.org:8080/CommunityWork/
  This url needs to be redirected in someway so that the user does not
  have to type 8080 for the port number.

  A problem: it is not possible to access the 8080 site from the public
  library because the public library has a proxy server which only 
  allows port 80 connections, and I think that this is true for the 
  Charles Sturt University Jack Cross computer room as well - so we need to fix this.




* Tuesday, 16 December 2003 

  Wrote a script to clean off some of the unnecessary log files from the
  smoothwall firewall. I put the script in the folder \\intranet\wftd\software
  I still havent scheduled the script to run using 'cron' yet.

  Looking at the Zope application server http://www.zope.org

* Monday, 15 December 2003 

  Still doing some software setting up, on the furthermost computer
  in the Internet Room. Mozilla, etc Putting the downloaded files for some 
  of this software on \\Intranet\wftd\software\ for faster set-up in future
  Did the usual things to improve performance on the XP machine, such as

  Start --> Control Panel --> Taskbar and Start Menu --> Start Menu 
    --> Classic Start Menu

  My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced --> Performance --> Settings
    --> Adjust for best performance

  Internet Explorer --> Tools --> Internet Options --> Connections -->
    Lan Settings --> Proxy Sever --> Uncheck "Use a proxy server for your  
    Lan..."

  Looking at the SmoothWall firewall system. 
  While using this wiki during the evening it appeared to stop
  working (using IE5.5). All the urls became incorrect for editing.

* Saturday, 13 December 2003 

  Added a link to us (the pcrecycle project) on the 'oddmuse' users
  page [http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Users]. The purpose of 
  this is to help the Google web-crawler to find us.


* Friday, 12 December 2003 

  Investigation of various CMS systems 
  [http://macwcwagga.homedns.org/ideas/oddmuse-wiki.pl/Content_Management_Systems]

* Thursday, 11 dec 2003 

Setting up various software components such as 

"lynx" http://www.fredlwm.hpg.ig.com.br/cygwin/lynx/  This is a text only browser with ssl (secure sockets layer) support.

The "info-zip" http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ compress and decompress tools (command line use)

  Looking at the "Axkit" http://axkit.org/ web publishing system.
  Today I also established Oddmuse 'wiki' which is viewable at 
  http://www.macwcwagga.homedns.org/ideas/oddmuse-wiki.pl .
  A wiki is a set of web-pages which are public editable by visitors to
  the pages by using a web-browser only. The purpose of this wiki is to
  provide a forum for suggestions, progress reports and general information
  about my volunteer work for Mission Australia. This 'wiki' is powered by 
  the "Oddmuse" http://www.oddmuse.org/ script. I am not entirely happy with this wiki
  system. It appears to go very slowly sometimes and stops working in Internet 
  Explorer 5 (The URLs seems to get 'mangled' somehow and you cant edit pages).

* Wednesday 10 dec 2003 

Yesterday I had conversations with Damien Gooley about my assisting
as a volunteer in Mission Australia Community Work Computer
refurbishment and web-design project. The result of these talks was
that I would work on a web-site for this project and possibly a
web-site for a third party site 'cdat' (?) and that I would do other tasks 
that came up from time to time, such as helping to keep the network running
and hardware refurbishment.

Today I am in the process of setting up a computer such that it is
suitable for doing Internet development. This includes the installing
of certain software which I normally use. For example:

The "mozilla" [http://www.mozilla.org] web-browser, used for testing for cross browser compatibility; The 'putty' windows ssh (secure shell) client. This program will be
useful in performing occasional tasks on the 'smoothtalk' firewall.
This program will start and run faster than the Java applet which is
part of the smoothtalk distribution.  Some php scripts which will allow me to 
develop on the webserver using only a browser interface.

I will also be doing ongoing research into the sort of web-based
software which will be appropriate to set up a functional web-site
for the Computer Refurbishment project. Damien has suggested such
CMS (Content Management Systems) as "phpnuke" http://www.phpnuke.org
or 'backend' which appear to be certainly the right idea, subject to 
slightly closer investigation. Ideas for the web-site include providing
a page editable by each participant to describe their activities, either
on a daily basis or in summary form. Also a catalogue of current hardware may
be of interest to the internet community considering the 'collectable'
nature of some of the very old computers and components which have
been donated. For more information about these CMS systems see other
pages on this site (links on the front page)


* Tuesday, 9 dec 2003 

I had some discussions with Damien Gooley about what input I could have
into the Mission Australia Community Work Project (Wagga, Computer Refurbishment / PcCycle and web design) - 


* My contact details

I can be contacted in the following ways

  -->>
  telephone: 042 391 1430
  Postal Address:
  P.O. Box 2242, 
  Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650
  --<<

  Web: http://www.geocities.com/matth3wbishop/
  email: matth3wbishop@yahoo.com



* Miscellaneous Things

  (This is not really related to the project)
  http://www.kittymail.com
    An interesting looking simple web-design

  http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/s.htm
    An english / greek word-list. 

  http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNLanguage/SupportNS/tableofcontent.htm
    A good vietnamese learning site (sound files etc)

  http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/faq.htm
    good cantonese site (sound etc)

  http://dataguru.org/ref/tech/index.asp
    Este pgina tiene imgenes de teclados que puedo utilizar para
    transformar texto plano hasta documentos de HTML con imgenes


  Correo electrnico de Damien
   
  damien<at>damien<lastname>.com      "Edit this file" http://wagga-cwc.org.au/refurb/webpad/webpad.php?file=%2Fhome%2Fwaggacwc%2Fpublic_html%2Frefurb%2Fdocs%2Fmjb-journal.es.txt  


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